Character AI Launches ‘Stories,’ A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure AI Format Built For Teens

Character.AI just rolled out its biggest new experience in a while — Stories, an interactive, visual, choice-driven adventure format designed especially for younger users. Unlike the usual free-form chat or text RPGs on the platform, this one pushes you into a more guided, narrative structure where your decisions actually shape the plot.

What Stories brings to Character.AI

Stories is a multi-path storytelling format. Users select an initial premise, genre, characters and settings before the AI creates an elaborate narrative around your setup. As the story progresses, frequent choices present themselves that determine what happens next - these choices lead to different scenes, branching paths and alternate endings that await their decision makers.

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As each Story can be replayed, you can explore all the variants the AI provides -- similar to modernized Choose Your Own Adventure books.

How it fits into the platform

Character.AI is well-known for allowing users to communicate with fictional and real-life personalities alike as well as custom AI personas, creating engaging text-based role-play. Stories build upon this concept by adding structure, pacing and visual elements for greater momentum among younger users.

Once your story is written, it can be shared with other users for increased social engagement and feedback.

Built with minors in mind

Character.AI's initial feature designed specifically to meet the needs of users under 18 is called Character.AI Under-18 Stories and it includes safety layers to keep stories appropriate for younger audiences. Furthermore, Character.AI encourages guided narrative play over open-ended chat to establish better boundaries for younger users.

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Stories is part of a long-term strategy to expand AI-driven entertainment with richer multimodal experiences rather than simple text-based dialogue.

What this really means: Character.AI wants to become a full-on entertainment platform, not just a chatbot playground — and Stories is the first big move in that direction.